A boat carrying 250 migrants from various African countries was wrecked off the coast of Tunisia.
According to information from the Tunisian agency Tap, the boat was headed for Italy. The alarm was given by radio from a fishing boat which was in the area of the shipwreck. Several rescue vehicles intervened on the spot and managed to rescue dozens of people, but 20 people remain dead and a large number of missing.
"[..] On the other hand, the 100 non-EU citizens who since yesterday had been adrift on a boat about 60 miles south of Lampedusa were all rescued. The boat had been spotted by an Atlantic aircraft of the Navy, and this morning the ships Driade and Danade arrived in the area, signaling the danger of the situation. The vessel was in fact in very bad condition. The sea was very rough. So the ships sent a request for a urgent aid intervention.

Coast Guard vehicles and a helicopter were sent to the site under the coordination of the Palermo port authority. Among the people on board there were also 20 women and children, who were transferred aboard a patrol boat. The rescue operations, made particularly difficult by the bad weather conditions, were brought to a successful conclusion also thanks to the intervention of the two ships already mentioned, which created a sheltered area allowing the transhipment." [la Repubblica.it]